[indiana-discuss] Re: [indiana=discuss] Name of Distro?

[Doug Scott]

Shawn Walker wrote:
> On 20/06/07, Doug Scott <dougs at truemail.co.th> wrote:
>> Shawn Walker wrote:
>> > On 20/06/07, Simon Phipps <webmink at sun.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Jun 21, 2007, at 02:24, Shawn Walker wrote:
>> >> > I just think that a project that is supposedly by the community
>> >> > (Indiana) should have to follow the same rules as the rest of the
>> >> > community.
>> >>
>> >> I agree with that. But how about if those rules changed? There are a
>> >> few boundaries imposed by US and other trademark law, but it's
>> >> plausible that we could ask Sun to change the rules.
>> >
>> > That's my main sticking point with it at the moment. If Indiana is a
>> > community project, it should follow the same rules the rest of the
>> > community has to follow.
>> >
>> Shawn,
>>    playing by the rules,  Sun own the right by law to call anything they
>> want as Solaris or OpenSolaris. No other entity has this right, thus
>> they can not use the name. Let just get on with life, and produce code!
>
> Doug, my point is that this is supposed to be a community project, not
> a Sun project. Therefore what Sun has the right to do does not apply.
> I know you want to produce code, but quite frankly, just as code is
> important to you, naming and other issues are important to others.

Shawn, you are correct. I would rather produce code than getting into a 
debate about naming :) Can we debate in 'C' or 'D'?

That said I still do no think anybody other than Sun can or should call 
anything OpenSolaris. Saying that a distribution is 'based' on 
OpenSolaris code/standards is probably a better definition.

Doug